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Word: casts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benny's mother arrived home to find a town-strong task force deployed across her lawn. Firemen had lowered a hose to Benny and were pumping oxygen into the airless hole. In the eerie shadows cast by searchlights, trucks disgorged tools, timber, volunteers. Rescue workers were feverishly digging a pit ten feet from Benny's shaft and parallel to it. A power shovel clanked in to speed the digging, but had to give up only four feet down when the pit caved in. A dozen men stepped back into the hole with hand shovels, shoring up the crumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SMALL BOY DOWN A WELL: MANORVILLE SAVES BENNY | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...protested two votes cast in Tuesday's election to decide union representation for employees of the Harvard Athletic Association, and a Massachusetts Labor Board Relations Board hearing will be necessary to decide the outcome of the election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFL Protests Employee Ballots In Close Jurisdictional Election | 5/23/1957 | See Source »

...still have the original sets and costumes," Glenn J. Goldburg '57, the play's director, said last night. Most members of the original cast are also in Cambridge, he added, and have expressed their willingness to participate in the revival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Drama Group To Ask Permission For Restaging Play | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

...great was the demand for tickets that the Queens Club, which sponsored the meet, was forced to extend the grandstands. "The Belle of New York" and other American companies playing in London suspended matinees on the Saturday of the meet, in order that the members of the cast could attend the meet...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: This Spring's Track Meet Against Oxford-Cambridge Revives a Long Tradition | 5/21/1957 | See Source »

...down, Producer Sam Goldwyn got the film rights to George Gershwin's Negro folk opera Porgy and Bess. Gershwin's estate and other beneficiaries will get a straight 10% of the movie's gross receipts. Goldwyn, reportedly seeking Calypsinger Harry Belafonte to head an all-Negro cast, plans to release Porgy late next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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